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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Please y’all, I’m begging, stop comparing abortion to
homosexuality. They’re not even in the same realm, so knock it off.

There are too many pro-choice people who desperately want to lump abortion in
with all the other “social issues," and the last thing we want to do is help them propagate that lie.

Let me break it down...

Certain acts- i.e. rape, abortion, murder- are attacks AGAINST
another human being; an innocent bystander. Other behaviors, while you may
label them as “sins”- gluttony, pre-marital sex, materialism, homosexuality-
are conscious choices made by consenting individuals. While we may not agree with them, society as a whole has decided the government does not need to protect us from them. Abortion is the one exception that's been put into the "social issue" category when obviously it does not belong there.

When we finally begin to differentiate between cases where we need government "protection" and those where we merely have a personal or religious "preference" we can see homosexuality and abortion are
not even in the same ballpark. One is clearly a social issue while the other is matter of life and death.

Here, let’s try something. For just a second take God out of the
equation.

I’ll assume half of you just “x-ed” out of this page, but for
those of you still with us, we must accept not everyone in America lives their
life according to the Bible or has any interest in even attempting to do so. Our
country is now largely secular, and while you might find that
disturbing, if we truly want to change the culture, we must acknowledge our
audience. Furthermore, if we truly want to change the laws, we must respect the
separation of church and state. (Don't waste time commenting about how that was meant to protect the church, I get it, but that's hardly how it's being applied today.)

When you view both abortion and homosexuality without the Bible as a filter you will see they are largely different. Without religion it’s
somewhat difficult to find fault in homosexuality (feel free to tell me
how wrong I am in the comments as I'm sure you will), but abortion on the other had is very easy to argue from a secular perspective, because science.

So, just like we would never compare divorce to slavery, we
should not allow abortion to be lumped in with acts that are not about violent assaults on innocent
human beings.

Abortion must no longer be categorized as a “social issue,” when it is
clearly an attack on the most basic of constitutional human rights- the right to life.